The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Goes Nuts in AM and Caves as It All Collapses

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump freaking out in the morning as he is collapsing everything. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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then we do this whole thing over and over again right that's the definition of Insanity but then he attacks Prime Minister Trudeau I'll just read this for you briefly he goes after speaking with President Claudia scheinbaum of Mexico I have agreed that Mexico will not be required to pay tariffs on anything that falls under the USMCA agreement. This agreement is until April 2nd. So the USMCA, the United States Mexico Canada agreement, the deal that you made during your first administration, which basically covers all of the goods, you're saying that what that you made a horrible deal,

and now you're saying that that deal holds? But here's what he has to say about Prime Minister Trudeau and Canada, though. Again, he posted this this morning as well. He goes, believe it or not, despite the terrible job he's done for Canada, I think that Justin Trudeau is using the tariff problem, which he has largely caused, in order to run again for prime minister. So much fun to watch, exclamation point. There's so much to break down there. First off, so much fun to watch, exclamation point. We're about 24 hours away. Tomorrow on Friday, we expect there to be one of the most devastating job reports in recent history. Americans are suffering right now. We have the markets that are crashing each day and then Donald Trump comes up with some other scam and then it rises a bit and then it crashes the next day. We have GDP contraction right now. The Atlanta

Federal Reserve is saying that the GDP will go down in the first quarter somewhere near 3%, where if literally Donald Trump did nothing and just put former President Biden's policies on overdrive, we could have had 3% to 4% growth. And he's's saying so much fun to watch. Secondly, Prime Minister Trudeau is not running for prime minister again. If you have the most basic research about what's going on in Canada right now, you would know that there's a race for who's going to lead the Liberal Party right now and that there is going to be elections that are going to be held relatively soon. And then this malignant narcissism from him, an abuser personality by Donald Trump saying Trudeau caused the problems, the tariff problem when Donald Trump arbitrarily and unilaterally put these tariffs on Canada

and essentially declared war on our ally. And he's blaming Prime Minister Trudeau for defending his people. It is a shameful day once again to be an American right now based on these despicable statements and despicable behavior of this authoritarian regime that is now running our country and has essentially completed a coup or is attempting a coup of our democratic institutions. It is absolutely despicable. And as they're crashing the economy right now, you see what's happening. You have like Larry Kudlow, who's on Fox Business and the revolving door of Trump regime propagandists, who then become Fox hosts and Fox hosts, who become somehow the freaking defense secretary of the United States

doing a horrible job, may I add. So then Larry Kudlow is like, things are crashing, but we know Trump had nothing to do with it. Here, play this clip. Some very, very smart people are telling me that the jobs number that's coming out, the February jobs number that's coming out Friday could be flat, even negative, Brookie. The GDP now tracker from the Atlanta Fed is showing, I mean, for the first quarter, a minus two and a half or minus 2.8%. And we've had lousy numbers on things like housing and business investment.

My generic point here with respect to affordability and the economy is we're gonna to have to suffer through some bad news this is nothing to do with trump trump's program's not in you so then they bring on their snake oil salesman which one you may ask they bring on howard lutnik and howard lutnik says uh look you know stock market goes up stock market goes down that's not a big deal you know that we here never use the stock market as an indicator of success really because that's all donald trump has ever talked about before here's donald trump's commerce secretary howard lutnik let's play it yes secretary lugnick does the

president want a rising stock market because we do have stock six percent off the highs and confidence is being shaken here a little bit around business. I know you guys wanted lower interest rates and you're getting that, but kind of for the wrong reasons, because now there's worries about growth and potentially recession because of a trade war. The president wants American growth and American prosperity. OK, and the fact that the stock market goes down a half a percent or a percent, it goes up a half a percent or percent. That is not the driving force of our outcome. And then previously, Howard Lutnick would say, well, look, you know, for if we want to solve our deficit, all we've got to do, all we've got to do is sell to the Russian oligarchs,

five to 10 million Trump gold cards and voila, everything is dealt with. Here, play this clip. Selling, you know, visas, the ability to have a green card to come to America. Imagine if you sold a million of them, you'd pay off our deficit and have 15 trillion to spare. Howard Lutnick is asked, so you're focused on increasing robotics and increasing machinery, but how are you going to deal with the loss of jobs? Here's what Lutnick said. Let's play it. All right, because robots usually replace people, but you think that ultimately it's going to create jobs. Oh, I'm sure, but you're going to see that my department is going to come out with a plan that has a guarantee. If you go into the training program, you will be guaranteed a job.

So then we get more whining from Donald Trump. He posts massive trade deficit with the world, just announced compliments of sleepy Joe Biden. I will change that. I think you're changing a lot right now for the worse. Donald Trump then posts, the fake play the ref news in order to get a great divide between me and our great US Supreme Court heard me. This is what he posted last night at 8.06 West Coast time. So right before about 11 PM,m. he was writing this. Heard me say last night, loudly and openly, as I was walking past the justices on the podium, thank you to Chief Justice John Roberts. Like most people, I don't watch fake news, CNN or MSDNC,

but I understand they are going crazy asking what it was that I was thanking Justice Roberts for. He didn't just said, thank you. You said, I won't forget. But let's listen to your lie. He goes on and says, they never called me to ask, of course, but if they had, I would have told these sleazebag journalists. I would have told these sleazebags that I thanked him for swearing me in on Inauguration Day. You mean when you never put your hand even on the Bible and you claim to be a religious person and doing really good job in doing so. The fake news

never quits. Oh, that's what you meant when you told Chief Justice Roberts won't forget. Not that he was the author of the majority opinion in a case that gave you absolute immunity, which you are now using to turn America into an authoritarian regime. I'll just play that clip of what happened at the joint session address. Play this clip. Well, all this is going on to Donald Trump is emailing his supporters at 5.03 a.m. in the morning saying, I asked my team to flag your response. I need three million responses before midnight. Ben, I asked my team to flag your response. Did you vote for me in November? Please don't forget question number three. Finish the MAGA poll.

Respond to Trump. I look forward to reading your response tonight. And then when you click on it, it asks for money and to give donald trump donations for his joint campaign committee even though he's not running uh for anything um and then here you have howard lutnick further attacking canada and saying that even though the data shows that only 43 pounds of fentanyl were seized at the canadian border he goes it's much more than that. Here, play this clip. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, only seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border last year. So is that a metric? Do we want to see that

go down to zero? How are you judging when they've done enough? Well, how funny is that, right? Like, if I seize less, you know, does that mean, like, the stuff they haven't seized hasn't gone through? Other news to report. Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke the temporary legal status for the 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, told Reuters, this means that the Ukrainians would be deported back to Ukraine. And then Musk's doge terminated the lease at the Obama presidential library site. And we are also learning this morning that there is a draft of a Trump executive order that will abolish the entire Department of

Education. The Secretary of Education, Lyndon McMahon, would be directed to take all necessary steps to facilitate the full closure of the Department of Education. That's all that's happening this morning. We will keep you posted with more here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad-free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, and more. Sign up for free now at MidasPlus.com.